Especially for Antiochos
VII, the little
Eros head on this coin has a sub-Lysippic character to it, like that of the statuary
type called the "Piping Faun" (with its tiny horns, it may be a Boy
Pan, instead). Anyway, here is its
head, taken to match the
Eros on the
Seleucid bronze (profile to r.), which required shooting into the light. That is why I think the coin
type is based on a real statue of about 300 BCE, maybe a generation earlier.
Pat L.